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Courter: Things I wish my kids would ask me

photo Barry Courter

Editor’s note: Barry Courter has a 26-year-old son who is a college graduate and a 21-year-old daughter who is a junior in college. Each week he poses a question he wishes they would ask.

Q: Dad, what is another one of your do-overs, or things you would do differently?

A: There are lots of things I’ve said and done to people I wish I could take back, but I really wish I had been smarter with my money long ago. I wish I had started a retirement and savings accounts right out of college and avoided credit cards at all costs.